Beyond physical damage, floods leave deep emotional wounds in Indonesia's Aceh


JAKARTA (Xinhua): One month after deadly flash floods and landslides swept through large parts of Aceh, Indonesia's westernmost province, survivors in villages still surrounded by mud and splintered wood are grappling with a trauma they say feels "deeper, stranger and more personal" than what they experienced during the Indian Ocean tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004.

Twenty-one years ago, a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra unleashed towering waves that destroyed entire coastal towns, killing about 200,000 people in Aceh province and forever reshaping the region's history and collective psyche.

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